A spirit granted passage to a missionary of this belief system named Mar Ammo when he recited a chapter of The Treasury of Life. Buddhist syncretizations mask symbols of this system in Fujian’s Cao’an (15[1])temple. In the cosmogony of this system, the third creation resulted in an antagonist made up of five archons. A former “hearer” of this system described how Faustus of Mileve evaded his questions during debates in (*) Carthage. Evil (10[1])exists because the Father of Greatness is not omnipotent according to this gnostic belief system’s founder, a third century Iranian (10[1]-5[1])prophet. Before (-5[1])Ambrose converted him to Christianity, Saint Augustine was a follower of this belief (10[1])system. For 10 points, name this mostly extinct dualistic religion centered on the battle between light and darkness. (10[1])■END■